Buz Davis wrote:
I am running CentOS 5.3 and have just the two accounts "root" and "buz". I would like to be able to issue "shutdown" from the account "buz", and thus created /etc/shutdown.allow with the single entry "buz" (without any quotes). I still get the error message "only root can do this" (or something similar) even if I include the '-a' option on the shutdown command. What am I missing ? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
IIRC, shutdown.allow doesn't work that way. It's a way to prevent arbitrary people logged into a console from issuing a ctrl-alt-del reboot sequence. You'll either need to set up a 'sudo' capability for that account to run shutdown, or do something like outlined here: http://www.patoche.org/LTT/all/00000059.html
I'd prefer the sudo approach. -Alan